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This was on Comics2Film. I love the Smurfs, so I'm looking forward to this.

Smurfs Are Back!

Paramount plays the blues…in CG form
19 July 2005
Donnie Darko's discussion of the sexual practices of Smurfs notwithstanding, it's been a long time since we saw any new adventures from the small blue gnome-type things themselves. But all that is about the change, with the news that the Smurfs, like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (see here) before them, are about to make the leap from the small screen to the big, in CGI form.

The Smurfs, for the 3 people on Earth who don't know that, are small blue creatures "three apples high" who live in a town of mushroom shaped houses in the woods. There, they hang out in their nifty white trousers-and-hat combos – except for Papa Smurf, who wears red, and Smurfette, who wears whatever she wants – and try to avoid the attentions of the dastardly sorceror Gargamel, who's determined to wipe them out. Presumably he's offended by their habit of looking the same, dressing the same and resembling blueberries. Or perhaps it's their habit of replacing random words with the word "smurf" as in "What the smurfing smurf are you doing with Smurfette, you smurf?"

Over the 47 years since they first appeared in a Belgian cartoon strip, they've gone into space, experienced civil war and befriended wandering knight errants. Their exact biology or means of reproduction remain a mystery – Baby Smurf was delivered by stork, for example – but they're popular all over the world, thanks to the comics and a cartoon series in the 1980s.

The new film is scheduled to come out in 2008, to celebrate their 50th birthday, and producers are hoping that it will be the first of a trilogy. Herbert Ratner, writer of the upcoming film Mr Lucky with Cedric The Entertainer. However, the producers aren't giving anything away about the plot, which will remain under wraps for now.

i loved my collection of SMURF's when i was a kid !!

there was a BIG craze in my primary school at the time, i had quite a lot of them, although not as many as some kids, i had around 20 or so, and one of the houses !!

i seem to remember my Dad, bringing a new one home every week or so, i'm sure ew got them 'free' when he bought petrol/gas at a "NATIONAL GARAGE" ??

i always remember wanting one, that had a car !! but never got it !!

anyway, they were cool !! and it would be good to see a film version, to remind me of my childhood !!

Matthew.

Oh my! We get to return to Smurf Village Soviet Socialist Republic. I can't wait.

Obviously Greedy Smurf was the token capitalist to be mocked and derided by the rest of those centrally planned socialists.

Note how Trotsky Smurf, I mean Brainy was also the butt of jokes in the regime of Papa Joe Smurf.

No seriously, I watched the Smurfs for years and even had a dozen of those 2 inch figurines. I was upset when the KGB ran out of money to fund them that show.

No I kid, I kid. But when this comes out I'm watching it with a bunch of kids so they can get the benefit of my interpretive commentary.

I have a nice boot waiting for them...to land on them.

Ugggghhhh. I considered them and their ilk the end of really great saturday morning cartoons.

Sorry, just cant stand them.

I can see it now -- Will Smith doing an update of the Smurf song, complete with a new dance step.

Not to mention the tie-ins: "The McSmurfy Meal"

I think I'll gouge out my eyes now just in case...